Shaping your community: The role of Community Plans and Place Plans One Voice Wales & Planning Aid Wales conference Llanrwst, 11th June 2019
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Ian Stevens Chair, Planning Aid Wales 3
Welcome to first PAW / OVW Joint conference Ground rules for the day: • Everyone has an opportunity to participate • Mobiles switched to silent • Housekeeping 4
• Independent Charity • Focus on community engagement in planning • Welsh Government funded • Provides impartial planning guidance and advice • Helpline, publications, training 5
www.placeplans.org.uk 6
Mike Cuddy Chair, One Voice Wales 7
• National representative body for Community and Town Councils in Wales • Part Welsh Government funded • OVW has 626 members (at present) or 85% of 735 C&TC's in Wales • Roles: representation, advice and support, training, consultancy • Monthly E-Newsletters, website, OVW Conferences, joint conferences, seminars, Area Committee's 8
• Mark Newey , Head of Plans Branch, Welsh Government • Lyn Cadwallader , Chief Executive, One Voice Wales • James Davies , Chief Executive, Planning Aid Wales • Iona Hughes , Future Generations Commissioners Office 9
Morning: • Is a Place Plan right for your community ? • A community Plan for your community or town • A Place Plan for Newtown Afternoon: • Essential Data to support local planning g • The Borth Community Plan • Developeing a Town Plan – Mold Town Council 10
www.wales.gov.uk The importance of planning for our communities and towns Mark Newey Head of Development Plans 11 Welsh Government
The Planning Policy Framework in Wales - How does it all fit together? 12
Planning Policy Wales - Achieving the right development in the right place 13
A collaborative and participatory process to create sustainable places 14
How can communities get involved to steer and influence development in their neighbourhoods and towns? 15
A key objective of the development plan system “Basing LDP production on early and effective community involvement, to consider a wide range of views, with the aim of building a broad consensus on the strategy and polices for LDPs (Local Development Plan Manual (Edition 2) 2015 16
Why is the development plan important? • As Wales has a plan-led system, it means that the Local Development Plan will be very important when making planning decisions. • It sets out the Local Planning Authority’s proposals and policies for future development and use of land in its area. Once the plan has been adopted, decisions on planning permissions will be mostly based on the Local Development Plan. • The Local Development Plan will therefore provide a measure of certainty about what kind of development will and will not be permitted at different locations during the plan period. 17
The benefits of community involvement in plan making • The community are vital in the plan preparation process as they hold local knowledge! Community engagement is essential in shaping cities, towns and villages. • Sets a precedent for other engagement activities (i.e. Place Plans). • Promotes transparency, empowerment and understanding. • Ensures that appropriate sites are allocated. • Opportunity to improve resident’s quality of life, e.g. capitalising on the benefits from development (Section 106). • Builds knowledge capacity and buy in - ensures an efficient application process once the LDP is adopted i.e. support for development, or understanding why development is happening. 18
Our expectations for effective community involvement in plan making LPAs when preparing the development should: • Create the conditions for early involvement and feedback at a stage when people can recognise a chance to influence the plan. Early engagement is key!! • Encourage the commitment of all participants to an open and honest debate on realistic options, in search of consensus. LPAs should be clear about what communities can and can’t influence. • Recognise the need to adopt various approaches/techniques for engaging all elements of the community e.g. age groups, local community and action groups, including hard to reach groups. Not a one size fits all. • The Welsh Government does not prescribe the how and what methods. This is for the LPA to determine as they are best placed to determine who should be engaged. They know their patch! 19
The Development Plan Process The Community Involvement Scheme within the DA is a key document that sets out how, who and when the community and all stakeholders can engage in the plan. It must be complied with! Communities should get involved as early as possible to steer and influence the process! 20
Relevant Welsh Government Guidance for Practitioners and the Community 21
Relevant Welsh Government Guidance for Practitioners and the Communities • Edition 3 of the Manual is currently out for consultation (until end August) - it contains guidance on community engagement in the process and Plans. • Emphasis on ‘front loading’ ensuring plans are more detailed earlier on, ensuring transparency and more effective community engagement! • Contains new guidance on Place Plans – links to Planning Aid Wales Place Plans Guidance! 22
Place Plans • A useful place making tool providing an opportunity for communities to engage in the plan making process at a local level. • The content is not prescribed – will depend on various factors (nature and scale of site/areas, community aspirations and objectives). They could be a strategy, masterplan, development brief etc. • They can add fine grain detail to an adopted LDP- prepared in parallel with an LDP, or following adoption. • They should be in conformity with the development plan and adopted by the LPA as SPG to the plan. They should not duplicate or introduce new policy. • They deliver local outcomes, help build consensus and buy in with the development plan process. • They can provide a steer to distribute funding collected from S106/planning obligations. 23
Challenges? • The process is long (4 years), expensive and resource intensive. Evidence base documents can be technical and difficult to understand. • Financial and staff resources within local authorities / and community groups to undertake community involvement / local initiatives such as place plans. • Community capacity to continue to engage over a long period, consultation fatigue. • Early consultation documentation is strategic in nature, i.e. no site allocations or locally specific policies. The community can find it difficult to engage at this stage, then later it may be too late. This results in an increased risk of community objection and lack of support for the development plan, specific sites and proposals. Early engagement and understanding is key! 24
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Community Plans and Place Plans: An overview James Davies – Chief Executive, Planning Aid Wales Lyn Cadwallader – Chief Executive, One Voice Wales 26
• Where do Place Plans fit? • A combined solution? • Some lessons learned 27
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Aligns with PSB Community / LA Plans & Place Plan Delivering well- Non-land use being locally priorities e.g. Well-being Plan public transport, community activities / services Community Plan Land use aspirations, design guidance etc. adopted by LPA as Place Plan Identifies and plans SPG for delivery of community projects Project / Action Plan over set time frame 29
• It is an undertaking – commitment needed • What is right for your community? • Resources – time, expertise, relationships etc. 30
Community Plans • Context • Locality and Place • A Proposed Approach • Collaboration for Connected Places • What is a Community Plan? - Who decides? - What's does the plan look like? • Hasn't this been done before? • Summary 31
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Workshop: Is a Place Plan right for your community? James Davies, Chief Executive, Planning Aid Wales Llanrwst, 11th June 2019 34
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• Your issues Local Development Plan / SPG / Design Community Plan? Statements? Place Plan as SPG? 37
• Economic Environment Housing Design Development Transport / Community Retail Regeneration Parking Facilities 38
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